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Josh Joplin Group

American alternative rock band

Josh Joplin Group was an Atlanta, Georgia-based rock band led by singer-songwriter Josh Joplin. Initially a trio, Joplin hired Geoff Melkonian (bass/viola/vocals) and Jason Buecker (drums/percussion/vocals) to accompany him to play shows together. They simply called themselves Josh Joplin Band.[1] In late 1995 they began pre-production on their first album together. Recorded at Furies Studios with producer Ed Burdell (Magnapop),[2] Projector Head[3] was released, January 6, 1996.[4] Based on local critical success and some airplay on local radio[3][4][5] Joplin, Buecker, and Melkonian, began touring vigorously, starting in the south, continuing through the northeast, and beyond.[6]

Boxing Nostalgic[7][8][9] was their self produced sophomore effort. It was released April 6, 1997 to a sold-out show at the Cotton Club[10] The album introduced piano to their sound and Allen Broyles who played on the record wou

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Formed: 1996

Fusing unplugged guitars, honesty and street-smart wit, Josh Joplin Group combine their slightly bent storytelling style with rock 'n' roll intensity. Useful Music is the finest fruit of that collaboration. From the street-poetry swagger of lines like "a hat like Billy Jack's and a smile like Freddie Prinze" to the tenderness of Joplin's elegy for Ochs to the open-ended road energy of "Trailways" (my duffel bag is stuffed/I'm ready to go"), Useful Music dazzles.
Two highlights of Useful Music are singles for which the group enlisted ex-Talking Head Jerry Harrison as producer. With Harrison (Live, No Doubt, Verve Pipe) achieving a riveting interplay of sounds, "Matter" builds on a trenchant bass-line as gorgeous back-up vocals highlight some of Joplin's most assured singing (a haunting spoken-word interlude adds mystery and texture). Inspired in part by the movies of Paul Thomas Anderson, "Camera One," a tale of hard-life dreamers and suicide, of a "sandy haired son of Hollywood," a "trophy wife in Palisades" and a soul who "sells star maps to the sun." Josh descri

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Biography

  • Founded In

    Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States

  • Members

    • Deb Davis
    • Geoff Melkonian
    • Josh Joplin

Josh Joplin Group was a Georgia-based pop music band led by singer-songwriter Josh Joplin. Joplin, a self-proclaimed "dork" who nonetheless dropped out of school in tenth grade to become a folk singer like his hero Phil Ochs, brought the group its trademark combination of introspective lyrics, folk-rock melodies, and lead vocals that, to many, sound identical to those of R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe (to the point that one Joplin song, "Happy at Last," begins, "I sound like Michael Stipe and I dream like Carl Jung").

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